...the next subprime mortgage crisis on the horizon.

"...the more affordable iPhone 16e proving especially popular among consumers who favor smaller devices."

Yeah, I've recently bought a refurbed iPhone SE 3 after holding out for two years for a 1:1 replacement. That's a lost sale for Apple.

I'm still not interested in huge, tablet-sized smartphones, but it seems the market has spoken.

I just logged in (after years) to give my +1 to your post. That particular line rubbed me the wrong way too.

Heck, I'd love to buy one of these to store Chia seeds :-)

Now imagine smartphone manufacturers using that coating for the backside of their phones... Instant profit!

Ahhh, I get it. Another 4% launch. :-/

Wouldn't that spoil the moon? Why is the first instinct of Mankind to just litter everything they can reach :->

Ahhh, Doom. Back in university my roommate and I played it a lot. After a while, we swapped the sounds for samples taken from random comics. To this day I still remember the yodelling doors and yawning (= dying) imps...

You can still ask their support to switch you back to the free plan. The process was remarkably painless, given Google's usual track record.

That's what I tried too. First with my current bank advisor, then with my former. Both said they couldn't do anything, except for me "opening further services and getting a discount". Yeah... No.

...they didn't explicitly tell me to leave, but raised their various fees instead. Thanks, but no thanks.

Mine has been lost for years. Maybe it's time for responsible people to put ZyXEL on their personal and corporate blacklist too.

Ftom TFA: "IAC’s Valerie Combs, however, accused Google of being anti-competitive."

Well, that's a euphemism that doesn't even try to compare apples to oranges - it compares apples to an Aurora Borealis.

Yup, while your sd card gets fried too.

I've seen variations of this theme in quite a few different places, some of them even blue chips in the IT sector. As soon as MBAs want shiny colourful dashboard to make decisions that no one needs, the engineers will come up with solutions like this. I squarely blame the MBAs in middle management here.